GRoNE – LenJet Raceway – April 28, 2018

GRoNEing on a nice sunny day

Ashland, Massachusetts   April 28, 2018   Fourteen drivers attended the

Racing T-Jets on the Python

GRoNE event at Peter Lentros’ LenJet Raceway on a real warm, sunny Saturday this past April 28th; 13 participated in the T-Jet race while 12 ran the Gravity race.  In addition to the usual cast of characters, we had Ernie L, Dick Griffin and Bob Withers make their first appearances at a GRoNE event, the more the merrier.  Unfortunately, neither Joel Pennington nor Rick DeRosa could attend the event, Life keeps getting in the way of racing slot cars.

 

HOPRA T-Jets

After a two hour open practice session for T-Jets on the Python and Gravity

T-Jet Podium - Paul Ryer 1st, John Reimels 2nd, Peter Lentros 3rd and Ryan Archambault 4th

Cars on the Boomerang, it was time to run the T-Jet race.  The top five had a real barnburner being separated by only 3 laps.  Paul Ryer took down the win by ½ of a lap over John Reimels followed by Peter Lentros two laps further behind.  Ryan Archambault beat out Donny Hall for fourth by just sections; a single off making all the difference.  Paul Ryer ran a real consistent race getting 25 laps across the board.

Driver

Yellow

Blue

White

Red

Total

1 Paul Ryer

25

25

25

25

100.22

2 John Reimels

24

25

26

25

100.02

3 Peter Lentros

24

24

26

24

98

4 Ryan Archambault

24

25

23

25

97.12

5 Don Hall

24

25

25

23

97.04

6 Paul Crosby

21

25

23

22

91.40

7 Rob Hayes

21

24

23

23

91.10

8 Tom Smith

20

24

23

23

90

9 Bob Withers

22

20

21

20

83

10 Ernie L

20

20

21

21

82

11 Jim Macartney

20

20

22

18

80

12 Dick Griffin

17

20

20

20

77

13 Tom Gray

14

17

19

17

67

 

 

Gravity Cars

A full field of Gravity Cars - 8 anglewinders, 3 sidewinders and a lonely in-line

Ernie and Dick elected not to run Gravity cars but with Dave Muse joining the fray, we had a healthy 12 drivers for the Gravity race.  A real nice omen for the class is that 9 of the 12 drivers raced their own car; gone are the days where most folks ran borrowed cars.  We had 8 anglewinders, 3 sidewinders and one lonely in-line – all mini-motored cars.  Ryan tried his AFX based car but was off the top times being set by the mini-motor cars so he borrowed a car from my stable, technically this means 10 of the 12 racers had their own

Some intense driving going on... From left to right it's Paul Crosby, Tom Smith, Peter Lentros and Ryan Archambault

cars!  Once again Paul Ryer and John Reimels had a good battle for the win, this time John beating Paul to the line by 2 laps.  Paul had a tough run in blue otherwise it would have been closer (but I still would have won! – JR).  Dave Muse finished an awesome third trying out his latest controller that had a different power profile more suited to the mini-motor cars.  Dave is really doing some nice work on the controller front, he deserves more recognition than he’s currently getting (but please wait until AFTER the Nats before asking him to make a controller for you, hahahaha – JR).  Following Dave home for fourth was Ryan Archambault, ½ a lap behind Dave.  Tom Gray finished sixth only a few laps off the pace set by Dave and Ryan.

Driver

Yellow

Blue

White

Red

Total

1

John Reimels

22

22

22

22

88

2

Paul Ryer

22

20

22

22

86

3

Dave Muse

19

21

20

20

80.31

4

Ryan Archambault

19

21

20

20

80.07

5

Tom Gray

19

19

20

20

78

6

Peter Lentros

15

20

21

19

75.83

7

Don Hall

18

20

18

19

75.24

8

Rob Hayes

18

20

20

17

75.21

9

Paul Crosby

17

18

19

18

72

10

Tom Smith

18

17

17

17

69.47

11

Bob Withers

16

17

18

18

69.06

12

Jim Macartney

12

19

16

18

65

A fine looking Gravity Podium - John Reimels 1st, Paul Ryer 2nd, Dave Muse 3rd and Ryan Archambault 4th

With the second race over, rather than have another race, the decision was made to open both tracks for more practice time and let those wanting to enjoy the first real sunny day of spring go home to do yard work (I stayed for the practice time! – JR).

 

I’m waiting to hear from Joel and Rick about coming out before the Nats.  If they can make it, we’ll schedule another GRoNE race accordingly.  If they can’t make it, I’ll try to set up another practice day before the Nats.  Stay Tuned…

 

Thanks to Peter for hosting and special thanks to all 14 drivers who attended – without you guys we’d have nothing.

 

John Reimels

GRoNE Master of Ceremonies

Brass Car Enthusiast

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